Spooferama - Folks with time on their hands.

Wait for a bus and three arrive, find a spoof website and another appears as if by Magic. At least this fantasy site is NEW - or claims to be "CPNI, launched on 1st February" purports to be "The Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure" again another mixture of alphabetical soups ...."formed from the merger of the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) and a part of MI5 (the UK’s Security Service), the National Security Advice Centre (NSAC)."

I tell you George Blair AKA Orwell would be, if his dreadful chest allowed be splitting his sides. Come on guys you have one of these sentence generation programs, throw in a seed and out they come, Secure Homeland Intelligence Terrorism Service HITS) which is by MI6 our of the Boys Own Army (BOA).

It gets even better .... "an interdepartmental organisation," - well isn't everything these days?

" ....with resources from a number of government departments and agencies. DITTO

These include MI5, (Ho.Ho.) CESG (Communications Electronics Security Group) - the UK's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (NTAIA) (see www.cesg.gov.uk) and other Government departments responsible for national infrastructure sectors.

CPNI is accountable to the Director General of the Security Service (MI5) and operates under the Security Service Act 1989. Naturally old boy, probably catch him at Boodle's if the bars open ... take a hint DON'T wear a Garrick tie. Bad form Old Boy.

Surely we have seen this nonsense from the Clowns before ..

Freedom of Information

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) came into force 1 January 2005, and allows members of the public to request access to information held by certain public authorities.

In legal terms, CPNI is accountable to the Director General of the Security Service (MI5) ooo er ... (surely she is on her way out to spend more time with her support garments ?) and therefore operates under the Security Service Acts 1989 and 1996. CPNI is not subject to FOIA and therefore will not process FOIA requests.

There aren't any pictures to laugh at but there is a levely self referencing threat from the authors ... Terrorism also includes threats or hoaxes intended to frighten and intimidate.


Come off it you guys the joke is getting a bit stale.

Just for those interested in these sort of things the Technical Department did a WHOis

Domain name: CPNI.COM
Administrative Contact:
ieProtection.com
Administrator Domain (Whois@ieprotection.com)
1-345-925-1600
Fax:
P.O. Box 533 WB
West Bay, Granc Caym KY
KY
...here is the interesting bit ... spooky
Creation date: 08 Feb 1998 00:00:00
Expiration date: 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00

1 Day left. Grand Cayman ? Now try accessing http://www.ieprotection.com/ ?

Real Time Internet Inc.  No Trace anywhere of them. Spooky.

Is this funny or is there something sinister going on here ?